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14 Sep Raysor v. Desantis
In November 2018, voters in Florida approved an amendment to the state’s constitution that permits people with prior felony convictions to vote once they complete “all terms of” their sentence. In 2019, the state’s legislature enacted a law that defined “all terms of” a sentence...
18 Jun Thursday round-up
Amy Howe reports for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court, that “[a]fter just under three years (and three Supreme Court terms) on the job, Noel Francisco announced today that he would step down as the solicitor general of...
17 Jun Symposium: LGBT rights and religious freedom—finding a better way
Alexander Dushku and R. Shawn Gunnarson are shareholders at Kirton McConkie, where they represent an array of religious institutions on various matters. They were counsel of record on amicus briefs on behalf of religious organizations and religious colleges and universities in support of the employers...
16 Jun Texas Democrats ask justices to allow mail-in voting for all (Updated)
With just over two weeks remaining before the deadline to request mail-in ballots for the upcoming primary runoff election, the Texas Democratic Party and a group of Texas voters have asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a ruling by a federal trial court that would...
16 Jun Symposium: Progressive textualism and LGBTQ rights
Katie Eyer is a professor of law at Rutgers Law School. She co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of scholars of statutory interpretation and equality law arguing that textualism required a finding in favor of LGBTQ employees. Title VII has prohibited discrimination “because of …...
16 Jun Symposium: The moral arc bends toward justice: Toward an intersectional legal analysis of LGBTQ rights
Nicole G. Berner is general counsel of the Service Employees International Union. Monica Jin Joo Wilk is a law fellow in the SEIU legal department. SEIU, together with Jobs with Justice and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, submitted an amicus brief in R.G. & G.R....
16 Jun Tuesday round-up
Yesterday the Supreme Court released one of its most eagerly anticipated decisions of the term, holding in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees....
15 Jun Symposium: The strength of the written word fulfills Title VII’s promise
Sarah Rice is an assistant attorney general for the state of Maryland, which joined an amicus brief on behalf of 21 states and the District of Columbia in support of the employees in Bostock v. Clayton County and Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. In affirming that...
15 Jun Court sends case of Texas death-row inmate back for new look (Corrected)
The justices revived the case of Terence Andrus, a Texas inmate who was sentenced to death for the 2008 shootings of two people during an attempted carjacking in a grocery-store parking lot. The lawyer who was appointed to defend Andrus didn’t meet with him for...- 1
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